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BÁSICO 2 (A2)

Dear Students,

I would like you to use this website as a complement to your student's book.

I hope you enjoy it!!!

Este sitio web comenzó a construirse el día 25/07/2014 y sigue en construcción.
Mª Ángeles A.

In case you want to review anything you learnt at this school before, please visit these other websites:

A1-	Básico 1	http://basico1eoi.wikispaces.com	· comenzó a construirse el día 08/01/2012.
	Básico 1	http://basico1englisheoi.wikispaces.com	· (new book) comenzó a construirse el día 01/07/2013 y sigue en construcción.

Si quieres conocer a personas online interesadas como tú en practicar inglés y hablar con ellos a través del ordenador puedes darte de alta en:
http://www.busuu.com/es (va por niveles de conocimiento de inglés)

Otras páginas que también son interesantes para que puedas practicar inglés son:
https://www.babbel.com
https://www.duolingo.com

Exams:

School calendar	Review the most important instructions you should know to do your exams.
E-mail	Get in touch with your teacher by e-mail.
Exam Instructions	Check what the instructions are for this school year.
Writings	Cómo y en qué formato entregar los "writings" en clase a la profesora para que los corrija.

	GRAMMAR	VOCABULARY	PRONUNCIATION	SPEAKING	LISTENING	READING
Unit 1
Unit 1A	word order in questions	common verb phrases, spelling and numbers	vowel sounds, the alphabet	common verb phrases; home and family, job / studies, free time
Unit 1B	present simple	describing people: appearance and personality	final -s / -es	Looking for a partner	Dates	Who knows you better?
Unit 1C	present continuous	clothes, prepositions of place	/ə/ and /ɜ:/	Describing a picture	Describing a portrait
Practical English	Hotel problems
Unit 2
Unit 2A	past simple: regular and irregular verbs	holidays	regular verbs: -ed endings	Your last holiday	Two people's holidays	Perfect place and weather
Unit 2B	past continuous	prepositions of time and place: at, in, on	sentence stress	Talking about photographs	A girl's story	History
Unit 2C	time sequencers and connectors	verb phrases	word stress	A love story	When they met	Two lovers
Revise and check 1 & 2	Basico 1 / connectors - and, but, or, so, because
Unit 3
Unit 3A	be going to (plans and predictions)	airports	sentence stress and fast speech		Travel plans	Airports
Unit 3B	present continuous (future arrangements)	verbs + prepositions e.g. arrive in	sounding friendly		Facebook friends	Flight details
Unit 3C	defining relative clauses	expressions for paraphrasing: like, for, example, etc.	pronunciation in a dictionary	Guess the word	TV game show	New words
Practical English	Restaurant problems
Unit 4
Unit 4A	present perfect + yet, just, already	housework, make or do?	/j/ and /dʒ/		Teenage carers	Annoying habits
Unit 4B	present perfect or past simple? (1)	shopping	c and ch	Questionnaire	Do you wear everything you have bought?	The style
Unit 4C	something, anything, nothing, etc.	adjectives ending -ed and -ing	/e/, /əʊ/ and /ʌ/	Last weekend	Someone's weekend	A past weekend
Revise and Check 3 & 4						Shoe shops discover matching crimes
Unit 5
Unit 5A	comparative adjectives and adverbs, as...as	time expressions: spend time, etc.	sentence stress	Spending time	Expert advice	Living faster, but better?
Unit 5B	superlatives (+ever+present perfect)	describing a town or city	word and sentence stress	Capital cities	Tests in London	Capital cities
Unit 5C	quantifiers, too, not enough	health and the body	/ʌ/, /u:/, /ai/, and /e/	Diet and lifestyle	Lifestyle	Bad things that we like
Practical English	The wrong shoes (clothes shop)
Unit 6
Unit 6A	will / won't (predictions)	opposite verbs	'll, won't	A positive thinker	Positive thinking	A pessimist
Unit 6B	will / won't (decisions, offers, promises)	verb + back	word stress: two-syllable verbs	Making a promise		A promise
Unit 6C	review of verb forms: present, past and future	adjectives + prepositions	the letters ow	Revision questionnaire	Do you understand your dreams?	Dreams
Revise and Check 5 & 6						Can music really make you run faster?
Unit 7
Unit 7A	uses of the infinitive with to	verbs + infinitive: try to, forget to, etc.	weak form of to, linking		A first meeting	Your partner's parents
Unit 7B	uses of the gerund (verb + -ing)	verbs + gerund	the letter i	Singing	Singing school
Unit 7C	have to, don't have to, must, mustn't	modifiers: a bit, really, etc.	must, musn't	Have you ever ...?	Language tests	I will survive ... or will I?
Practical English	At the pharmacy
Unit 8
Unit 8A	should	get	/ʊ/ and /u:/, sentence stress	What's the problem?	What's the problem?
Unit 8B	if + present, will + infinitive (first conditional)	confusing verbs	linking		Surviving natural disasters
Unit 8C	possessive pronouns	adverbs of manner	sentence rhythm
Revise and Check 7 & 8						Why are the British so bad at learning languages?
Unit 9
Unit 9A	if + past, would + infinitive (second conditional)	animals	word stress	What would you do ...?		Would you know what to do?
Unit 9B	present perfect + for and since	phobias and words related to fear	sentence stress	Questionnaire revising tenses	Three phobias	Scared of spiders. Take this pill.
Unit 9C	present perfect or past simple? (2)	biographies	word stress, /ɔ:/	Talking about an oldere person	//Top Sounds//	Like father like son
Practical English	Getting around (giving directions)
Unit 10
Unit 10A	passive	verbs: invent, discover, etc.	/ʃ/, -ed, sentence stress	Passives quiz	Radio programme - //Inventions//	Did you know...?
Unit 10B	used to	school subjects	used to / didn't use to	Did you use to ...?	Memories of school
Unit 10C	might	word building: noun formation	dipthongs	Are you indecisive?		Is too much choice making us unhappy?
Revise and Check 9 & 10						Dolphins save swimmers from a shark attack

You can work on extra activities here: https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/?cc=us&selLanguage=en

OTHER RESOURCES:

Dictionary	Cambridge / Collins / Wordreference (to look for words, sentences or definitions in English).
Enjoy Videos!	Watch different videos to improve your listening skills.

Holidays:

Halloween	(October 31st)
Guy Fawkes	(November 5th)
The Day of the Dead	(November 12th)
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women	(November 25th) Día de la violencia de género
Thanksgiving / Black Friday	(the 4th Thursday in November)
Christmas	December 22nd - January 7th
New Year	(January 1st)
St. Valentine's Day	(February 14th)
International Women's Day	(March 8th)
St. Patrick's Day	(March 17th)
Easter	12th April 2015, 1st May 2016, 16th April 2017, 8th April 2018, 28 April 2019, 19th April 2020, 2nd May 2021
World Book and Copyright Day	(April 23rd) Día del libro y los derechos de autor.
Mother's Day	(2nd Sunday in May)
Memorial Day	(last Monday in May, USA)

Use of English:

advice
as vs. like	There are grammar differences between them.
British and American English	differences in vocabulary and grammar
health	health and other vocabulary
holidays
open vs. opened	adjective vs. verb
pronouns	who - whose - whom - that - which - where
sport	sport and other vocabulary
the	uses of the article
Verb tenses	Here you will find all possible tenses for all the different levels you can study at this school.
yes - no	other ways of saying yes and no

Connectors, linking words and time sequencers	however, although, ... / nevertheless, in contrast, ... / after that, then, ...

Si queréis reforzar cualquiera de las cuatro destrezas (reading, listening, writing, speaking), más abajo encontraréis muchas actividades para lograrlo. Os aconsejo que para reforzar el oral tratéis de quedar con un compañero de clase o cualquier otra persona con la que podáis conversar (más abajo os indico una web donde podéis contactar con personas que quieren hablar en otro idioma).

Reading:

· Cloze texts	Do these clozes to get ready for the exams.
· Multiple Choice Texts	Do these multiple choice activities to get ready for the exams (a, b or c).
· Multiple Matching Texts	Do these multiple matching activities to get ready for the exams (choose the right heading).

Hollidays (A2)	Read some interesting facts about different hollidays.
Jokes 1	Practise your reading skills and laugh.
Jokes 2	Practise your reading skills and laugh.
Library	Go to the library in the EOI and take a book home.
Thoughts 1	Practise your reading and think about these thoughts.
Thoughts 2	Practise your reading and think about these thoughts.
Reading Books	Look at an example of exam you may do for your reading book (Skyjack / A Morbid Taste for Bones /...).
Read and listen	Read and listen to these stories.
Reading Comprehension	Practise your reading skill working with different texts: tales and other stories.
Reading Comprehension	Practise your reading skill working with different texts taken from Vaughan World.
Reading Comprehension (USA schools)	Practise your reading skill working with different texts taken from a real English source.

Look for other books as the ones you have above, here:
Age:	+5 +6 +7 +8
Arts
Biography
Cooking
Discoveries
Explorations
Geography
History
Music
Science
Space

Listening:

· Multiple Choice Listenings	Do these multiple choice listenings to get ready for the exams (a, b or c).
· Multiple Matching Listenings	Do these multiple matching listenings to get ready for the exams (choose the right heading).
· Sentence Completion Listenings	Do these sentence completion listenings to get ready for the exams (write the words you hear).

About London	Watch and listen to some videos to learn more about London.
British English Videos	Watch these videos.
British History	Watch and listen to some videos about the History of Great Britain.
English TV and films	Click here: http://trabajoeninglaterra.org/video-ver-la-television-britanica-desde-espana-en-dos-pasos http://trabajoeninglaterra.org/ver-peliculas-en-ingles-con-subtitulos-en-ingles
Enjoy Videos!	Watch different videos to improve your listening skills.
La Mansión del Inglés	Listen to these audios on this web site.
Let's talk in English!	Watch and listen to some videos from the TV show Let's Talk in English!
Listening Comprehension	Practise your listening skill working with different texts: tales and other stories.
Listening Practice	Listen to different stories while you read.
Listen to these videos	It is the story about some friends (it is from the Elementary level).
London	Some videos about London.
Monica's blog	Listen to some recordings in Monica's web.
Muzzy's Videos	Enjoy Muzzy's videos.
On the phone	Listen to some dialogues about people talking on the phone.
School Library	Go to the school library and take these books home to practise your listening skill.
Songs	Listen to these songs and sing.
Talk English	Listen to these audios and do the comprehension activities.
Vaughan Radio	Listen to a radio programme where you can learn and improve your English.
Vaughan TV	Listen and watch a TV programme where you can learn and improve your English.

Writing:

Connectors	Remember to use connectors in your writtings.
Writing Essays	Practise your writing skill to get the best results in the writing exam.

Speaking:

Se os recuerda que en básico 2 se os puede pedir que en el oral habléis de cualquier tema y utilicéis cualquiera del vocabulario visto a lo largo del curso. Ya no nos limitamos sólo al Practical English, como hicimos en básico 1.

Pronunciation in context	Work on your pronunciation with sentences or texts.
Review-Phonetics	Work on your pronunciation with isolated sounds.
· Describing Pictures (A2)	Practise your speaking skill to get the best results in the first part of your oral exam.
· Role Plays (A2)	Practise your speaking skill to get the best results in the second part of your oral exam.

Before the exam, try to at least review these topics for the writings or dialogues:

Unit 1B / 1C	Looking for a date
Practical English 1	Hotel problems
Unit 2A / 4C	Holidays / Free time	(past or future)
Practical English 3 / 5C	Restaurant problems / Food
Unit 4A	Housework
Practical English 5	Clothes shop problems
Unit 6A / 6B	Predictions or promises	For a possible short writing
Practical English 7	At the pharmacy
Unit 8A	Giving advice	For a possible short writing
Unit 8B	Natural disasters	For a possible short writing
Practical English 9	Giving directions

Remember that this year you leant some structures for a formal writing: Unit 7C
· Dear Sir/Madam
· Don't use contractions: I am writing / I would like, ...
· I look forward to hearing from you.
· Yours faithfully.

Try to use some of the new structures you have learnt this year when you describe a picture or do the role play:

Unit 3C	relatives	who / which / where
Unit 4A / 4B / 5B / 9B / 9C	present perfect	This art gallery is the most beautiful I have ever seen. Have you been in this hotel before?
Unit 5B	*superlatives*	This art gallery is the most beautiful I have ever seen.
Unit 8B	conditionals	If I was there, I would ...
Unit 10A	passive	This picture was taken by ... That ... was made by ...
Unit 10B	used to	When I was a child I used to ...

Use this chart to practise the pictures and dialogues:

Si quieres conocer a personas online interesadas como tú en practicar inglés y hablar con ellos a través del ordenador puedes darte de alta en: http://www.busuu.com/es (va por niveles de conocimiento de inglés)

Other videos:

Kids Learning English

Watch some British or American students learning English in class.